How Come Chickens Getting No Sunlight Weigh 2.5 Kg?

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Greenpeace through its campaign “We won’t swallow that chicken” urges the chicken industry which threatens health, ecology and has turned into a torture of animals, to change its production chain by 2020.  

In its meeting held in Cezayir Assembly Hall, Greenpeace has presented its report titled “Using up the world” within the panel “Like turkeys voting for Christmas: End of road for industrial poultry farming”.

4 tonnes of water spent to make a chicken gain 1 kg

Some prominent findings from Greenpeace’s report are as follows:

* A 42 day-old chicken which is supposed to weigh 4,35 gr now weighs 2.5 kg because of antibiotics.  

*In order to make a chicken gain 1 kg, 2.35 kg carbon dioxide is being emitted to the atmosphere and 4 tonnes of water is consumed.

* 18% of the greenhouse gas emission arises from animal husbandry and 8% from poultry farming.

* 33% of the world’s cultivated land is used for animal husbandry. 20% of the rain forests have been destroyed to produce forage.

* In Turkey, 1 billion chickens are slaughtered in 1 year. The chicken consumption has increased 5 times in 20 years. In Turkey 1.5 times more chickens are being produced by comparison to the average production in the world.

* 18 chickens have to survive in 1 m² without receiving any sunlight.

Excrements which could be fertilizer turn into poison

“In this cycle one’s output is used as other one’s input. Yet the industrial system has pulled these apart from each other. When the cycle is broken, one tends towards chemicals. By this way, the excrements of chicken supposed to be used as fertilizers turn into poison”.

The sector dumps GMO’s

“In 2014, Turkey has imported genetically modified soy products worth 1.5 billion dollars in order to produce animal fertilizer. On the other hand, Turkey has lost 26 billion decares agricultural lands in the last 15 years. Yet if only 6 million decares of this land was spared for corn and soy production, the animal husbandry sector would not need to import genetically modified soy and corn from abroad”. (NV/DG)